News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-31
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assured for 1887.
New maple sugar has appeared in
some places and brings 20 cents 6
pound.
Fifteen Anarchists are on trial al
Vienna on the charge of conspiring tc
burn the city.
The presents received by Emperor
William on his birthday are sufficient
to fill five furniture vans.
"Shocking unprincipIed lot, those
bus conductors. One of them passed
a bad sixpence OIL me fortnight ago,
confonnd him, and Eve not been able
to get rid of it yeti
The Chicago people have always
denied knowledge of the meaning of
the city's name. An Ohio scientist
says that it is derived from the Indian
'Chic-one," and means wild onion. "
Louisiana claims to have the largest
farm in the world. 1t runs 100 miles
north and south. The immense tract
is divided into convenient pastures,
with stations or ranches every six
miles. The fencing cost $4,000.
A war of determination is being
waged upon the English sparrow at
Albany. They are shot by the boys
and sold to provision dealers at l IA
cents apiece. The dealers get 81 2
cents a dozen for them for pot pies.
Mark Twain has an article entitled
"English as She is Taught" in the
April Century. 1t gives numerous ex-
amples of the remarkable English
sometimes found in school exercises,
with running comment by the humor-
| ist.
Charles Williams, aged Is, shot
Benjamin Ball, aged rs, at Ports
mouth, O., March 25. Ball had gone
into Williams house to demonstrate
against building a bonfire near his
premises by yourg Williams, when
the boy attacked him with revolver.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has two
daughters, by no means youthful, who
have never married. They are both
exceedingly retiring in manner, and
are seldom met in society. They are
sometimes seen on the streets of
Hartford, each leading pet dog.
John A. Logan, son of the dead
senator, and Miss Edith Andrews,
daughter of Chauncy N. Andrews of
Youngstown, o., were married Tues
day at the home of the bride. A
number of prominent people attended.
The presents were elaborate and
costly.
A colored woman, Adelia Thomp-
son, 40 years old, was arrested at
Rutland recently. She had been
threatening people with loaded revol-
yer. She claimed to be a private
detective, and said that for IA years
a man had been following her, trying
to murder her.
The Good Templars of the world
will hold a unfication conference at
Saratoga Springs May 4. The ques-
ton of admitting colored persons to
the order separated the English and
American lodges in 1876. The Sara
toga meeting is intended to amicably
adjust the matter.
1t is reported that six persons were
captured on Sunday, March %, at St.
Petersburg, in connection with the re-
cent plot to assassinate the car and
hanged on Monday. Degaleff, the
man who murdered the Russian chief
of police, three years ago, is said to
have been one of the six,
Chinese advices tell of a dreadful
tragedy at Risla, Shiba, China. Over
800 tramps appeared in the village
and the inhabitants greatly irritated
by their presence, inveigled the whole
body into temple and during the
night set fire to the edifce. Only 40
of the tramps escaped from the blaz-
ing building.
An unusual case in the Chinese
question came up before the San
Francisco court last week. A young
Chinese girl, gheewhose parents had
died, and who had been deserted by
the other, wished to be Americanized,
in spite of the protests of several
Cinnamon. She was pupil of the
Mission school, and had learned
enough to wish to be brought up as
an American,
A lady returning home on an ocean
steamer was much amused at a fir
tation Of the steamer surgeon and one
of the fair passengers. One day, when
the breeze waited strongly in her direc-
ton, these words were borne to her
from the loving couple: "It's so chill
ly," said the young lady Il feel as if
goose were walking over my grave"
"Do you?" asked the surgeon, tender
ly. ~ wish was that goose"
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, arrived
at Birmingham, Ala, March %. He
spoke at O'Brien's opera house, dis
cussing the tariff and advocating pro-
lection for the development of the latent
resources Of the South. The propri-
etor of the hotel where the senator first
stopped refused to allow delegation
of colo1ed men to be received in the
senator's room. Senator Sherman i'm
mediately paid his bill and went to an
other hotel.
Mr.. Henry Watterson of the -Eouis-
vile Courier-JournaI says that the
break IN the solid South cannot be
long deferred, and when it comes it
will be along the line of the tariff. He
admits that there is growing protee-
ton sentiment in several States Of the
South, which will quicken the leaven
of the ancient Whiggery. Such adj
mirable speeches as that which Sen
ator Sherman made in Nashville,
Tenn, will help the work along.
The President is said to have given
the following reasons for not celebrat-
ing his fiftieth birthday "Vanity,
vanity, it is all vanity. If man
really feels that his birth was a stroke
of luck to him, let him rejoice by all
means but / don't think he has right
to disturb the town about it and |
don't think it would be modest to ask
all the rest of the world to rejoice in
an event which had so little interest
for them"
There has been an attempt for sew
eral years past to induce the Connec-
ticut Legislature to close that state to
Sunday railroad trains, and law has